to be green about the gills
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Estructura completa
- to be green about the gills
- Variantes
- to be pale around the gills, to look like death warmed over
- Contexto
- I glance over and Theresa’s curled up a bit, and I can see and she’s already a little green about the gills, that sloe-eyed open-mouthed pant. I reach back behind her seat to where I keep the coffee bags for getting sick in and hand on to her. To my surprise she immediately retches into it, not a lot, because she didn´t eat my lunch, but enough to make me worry that’s not solely airsickness.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Título de la fuente
- Aloft
- Año
- 2004
- Web
- Google Books
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente